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Corporates make 73% of public sector bank bad loans -Sunny Verma

-The Indian Express

The Finance Ministry directed smaller PSBs to cut their corporate loan exposure to 25 per cent of their risk-weighted assets over the medium term and focus more on retail lending.

Corporate loans corner the lion’s share of rising bad loans in public sector banks while retail loans have a far superior track record when it comes to timely repayment, according to the latest available Reserve Bank of India data.

Even as public sector banks lent about 37 per cent of their total credit to the industry sector, the corporate and industry loans accounted for over 73 per cent of the total non-performing assets (NPAs) of the banking sector in 2016-17, according to an analysis of the data by The Indian Express. Retail loans, which are 22.83 per cent of the overall credit, comprised only 3.71 per cent of the gross NPAs.

Banking analysts say that factors such as business failure, inadequate risk assessment while sanctioning corporate credit and loan frauds by companies are some of the main reasons for the high level of NPAs in loans to industry given by the banks.

In contrast, retail loans such as home loans, car loans and personal loans have a much better repayment track record. Loans to services and agriculture sector accounted for 13.21 per cent and 8.89 per cent respectively of the gross NPAs, the data shows.

In absolute terms, out of Rs 6.41 lakh crore worth of total gross NPAs of PSU banks, Rs 4.70 lakh crore worth of NPAs were due to loans extended to industry as on March 31, 2017, the data shows. As for retail loans, Rs 23,795 crore worth of such loans turned into NPAs.

To put PSU banks in order, the government initiated a plan in January to turn some of the smaller PSBs into national retail banks and regional retail banks, while limiting the corporate loans business primarily to large banks such as the State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda.

The Finance Ministry directed smaller PSBs to cut their corporate loan exposure to 25 per cent of their risk-weighted assets over the medium term and focus more on retail lending.

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